ANOTHER FALSE DOOMSDAY PREDICTION TO DISCREDIT CHRISTIANS

By David Bay, Cutting Edge Ministries
May 19, 2011
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Preacher Harold Camping Sets His Rapture Date of May 21, 2011

Preacher Harold Camping is at it again, setting a specific date that the Rapture is going to occur. His advertising is warning people that the End of the World, the Rapture of the Church, is going to occur May 21, 2011!

Jesus told us 2,000 years ago to watch out for false religious leaders and their prophecies at the End of the Age. Listen:

But of that exact day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." (Matthew 24:36)

"But of that day or that hour not a single person knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.' (Mark 13:32; Ibid)

"The master of that servNotice that Jesus goes out of His way to tell us that false religious teachers were going to multiply at the End of the Age, we were to expect and keep away from them and their false teachings when they do arise. The key point to Jesus' Second Coming via the Rapture of the Church is that Jesus said plainly that no man can know the exact day and hour when He would return. Not even Jesus knows that precise time; only the Father can know.

Then, Jesus told us all that false religious teachers were going to multiply at the End of the Age and that we were to have nothing to do with them! Listen:

"For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (God's chosen ones)." (Matthew 24:24; Ibid.)

At this point, Jesus tells His genuine believers what they are to do when they see and/or hear such an End of the Age false teacher:

"So if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness (desert)--do not go out there; if they tell you, Behold, He is in the secret places or inner rooms--do not believe it. For just as the lightning flashes from the east and shines and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures will flock together." (Matthew 24:26-28; Ibid.)

When May 21, 2011, when Harold Camping is once again proven wrong, will he and his false date setting be like a dead body upon which the vultures of the air will descend for a feast? Remember, Preacher Camping has been wrong as he set 1994 as the year in which the Rapture was going to occur.

NEWS BRIEF: "Harold Camping Will go Mad on May 11, 2011," The American Vision, January 5, 2010

"Camping sold tens of thousands of copies of '1994'? He followed this book with 'Are You Ready?: Much More Evidence that 1994 Could be the End of the World' The media give Camping’s view front-page coverage every time he opens his mouth because of his calculated prediction that Jesus will return on a specific date. They know he’ll be wrong."

Why would the Mass Media give Harold Camping such coverage as he spouted his false message? That fact alone should have given people pause for concern. The Mass Media hates genuine Christianity and will never allow a genuine preacher any kind of real coverage.

Since Harold Camping was totally wrong about the Rapture, the Bible labels him a false prophet whose prophecies did not come from God!

"And if you say in your minds and hearts, How shall we know which words the Lord has not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or prove true, that is a word which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:21-22, Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary).

In other words, if a man claims to be a prophet but his prophecy does not come true, that man is not speaking from God. He is either presumptuously speaking on his own or from promptings from Satan. We are instructed not to pay any attention to that so-called prophet!

When Camping is proven wrong again, he will discredit the Bible and the genuine belief in the Rapture of the Church. Scoffing unbelievers will have one more reason to not believe Jesus Christ or His Bible.

Do you remember the flap in 1988, when another false prophet, Edgar Whisenant, published a little book entitled, "88 Reasons Why the Rapture is in 1988"? Going back to The American Vision article, quoted above, we read:

"Camping sounds a lot like Edgar Whisenant who predicted that the rapture would take place in September 1988, a certainty that he backed up with his booklet 88 Reasons Why the Rapture is in 1988 and the claim “Only if the Bible is in error am I wrong; and I say that to every preacher in town.â€